I just installed Gentoo in a VM on KVM, using a virtio-based disk image. I am having the same issue with GRUB as seen in bug 259613, except the update did not fix my issue. I am using the updated version of grub: sys-boot/grub-0.97-r9 I booted the VM using the most recent AMD64 install CD and stage 3 tarball: install-amd64-minimal-20100121.iso stage3-amd64-20100121.tar.bz2 I added the same information the original reporter did: # cat /boot/grub/device.map (hd0) /dev/vda # fdisk -l Disk /dev/vda: 10.5 GB, 10485760000 bytes 16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 20317 cylinders Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes Disk identifier: 0x6f03db3f Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/vda1 * 1 407 205096+ 83 Linux /dev/vda2 408 1448 524664 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/vda3 1449 20317 9509976 83 Linux # grub-install /dev/vda expr: non-numeric argument /dev/vda1 does not have any corresponding BIOS drive. # grub Probing devices to guess BIOS drives. This may take a long time. grub> root (hd0,0) Error 21: Selected disk does not exist Because I cannot get grub to install the configuration, I am still in the chroot'd environment.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 259613 ***
